Wednesday, January 27, 2010

HELL'S GATE

Sand fills a nose and then an ear -
The particulate sleep of death.

A skinbag of sleep tossed from a railcar
By ankles, by your slippery hands

To a barricade at Hell's Gate
Built to hold the sleep-flood back

A few grains longer, a few moments
Spilt; the difference between

Either gorge edge, either gate post
Either paddle wheel, either Flood Rock's

Detonation or an anarchist riot-
300,000 from Patterson

Blowing into ears, into teeth
and soon you are wholly of death.

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